Option to add a continuation marker at the front of a text chunk. about wordsmith-dalamudplugin

[LadyDefile]

Thank you!

Love the suggestion. I'm always open to more if you come up with something else so don't be shy! I want Wordsmith to be the best it could possibly ever be. Even if you think it may be niche. I enjoy the challenge of implementing new features and fixing bugs.

About the suggestion

Honestly, I was thinking of expanding on the continuation marker system already. I hadn't before because there were already so many options but now that I've got them sorted into categories I may revisit the idea. I just have to decide how far I want to go with it.

I'll definitely keep this suggestion in mind. I'll take some time today and play around with it. I want to be sure to do it right so I may or may not have some kind of prototype by the end of the day. I'll definitely update you with the ideas I come up with though.

I've got a couple ideas that I would like to play around with and see how it goes but I don't want to run my mouth about what may or may not end up existing just yet so just know that I am working on it!

TLDR

Thank you so much for suggesting! I'll work on it.

[LadyDefile]

Update

Hello again. I just wanted to give you an update on the solution I've come to. I've added an entirely new Marks & Tags category to Scratch Pad settings tab. It looks like this:

As you can see, the OOC tags and Continuation Marker have both been moved to this new section. But the exciting part (and relevant part to this topic) is the New Marker section at the bottom.

In the above example I put your || mark in and this is it in action in a Scratch Pad.

So now you can do something like this:

Another placeholder

I'm adding a #r placeholder for marker text that will place the number of chunks remaining

New Marker

• Marker Text Is the text to be written. Yes #c, #m, and #r work here.
• Position Before OOC opening tags, before text body, after text body, after OOC closing tags, and after continuation marker.
• Show On lets you choose when/where to show. such as All except first or only on Last
• Display when there is/are _____ chunks lets you make it display based on if there are chunks or not
• Display when OOC is _____ lets you specify if it show up when OOC is on, off, or either.

Final Notes

I'm not sure when this update will go live but I wanted you to know that I'm working on it. I was a little worried that this new system would be overly complicated so I did stick it behind the Show Advanced Settings option in the General settings tab. This is a pretty complicated overhaul on the way chunks are calculated so I've got to do some testing and really make sure this doesn't completely fudge something else up. And yes, I said 5 positions but there are only 4 options there. I'm in the middle of adding the 5th one (after continuation mark)

I hope you keep supporting and enjoying Wordsmith and I'll try to get this out to as soon as I'm able.

[LadyDefile]

Ready For Testing!

The update is looking good. I've fixed a couple bugs while working on all of this. The final form of the new marker system looks like this:

You can use the arrows on the left to reorganize the list (with some limitations. You can't move something above/below it's group. For instance, in the example image, you couldn't move (03) above (10) or below (04)

I should be able to push this out as a testing version in the next day or two!